<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"><glsaid="201611-07"><title>polkit: Heap-corruption on duplicate IDs </title><synopsis>polkit is vulnerable to local privilege escalation.</synopsis><producttype="ebuild">polkit</product><announced>2016-11-15</announced><revisedcount="1">2016-11-15</revised><bug>555666</bug><access>local</access><affected><packagename="sys-auth/polkit"auto="yes"arch="*"><unaffectedrange="ge">0.113</unaffected><vulnerablerange="lt">0.113</vulnerable></package></affected><background><p>polkit is a toolkit for managing policies relating to unprivileged
processes communicating with privileged processes.
</p></background><description><p>A vulnerability was discovered in polkit’s
polkit_backend_action_pool_init function due to duplicate action IDs in
action descriptions.
</p></description><impacttype="normal"><p>Local attackers are able to gain unauthorized privileges on the system.</p></impact><workaround><p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p></workaround><resolution><p>All polkit users should upgrade to the latest version:</p><code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-auth/polkit-0.113"
</code></resolution><references><urilink="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3255">CVE-2015-3255</uri></references><metadatatag="requester"timestamp="2015-12-25T00:47:50Z">
BlueKnight
</metadata><metadatatag="submitter"timestamp="2016-11-15T07:23:23Z">b-man</metadata></glsa>